Warbl
C3PX said:
His English really is not all that bad.
I disagree.
Better than your French, I presume. ;) At any rate. May not be refined, but he is able to get his points across, even if one does have to take a second to slowly read over his posts. In fact, I find his posts are easier to read and understand than a lot of crap that gets posted on facebook by first English speakers I grew up with.
have you done it again and again and again and again and again again and again and ...(you get the picture)?
Hmm, that is a lot of "again"s. Not sure for how far they go on for, but taking into account the seven agains that got depicted in your post (assuming "you get the picture" is an abbreviation of numerous other agains to follow, I cannot take them into accound not nowing their number).
But yeah, seven times fallen on my ass? That sounds about right, but I'd go ahead and toss in three or four more for good measure (and I consider myself lucky I have fallen down such a small number of times). In fact, as I type this and over the last few days I have been feeling like I am dangerously close to falling on my ass once again. Everything feels held up but by a single thread, at this junction it is either going to snap (which my pessimistic side is 100% sure will happen quite soon and has spent the entire day dominating my brain and thinking up various drastic contingency plans, none of which my optimistic side has been too thrilled about), and I will find myself once again on my ass with no place to go, or I am going to be able to weave that thread into a much more sturdy support and carry on dangling from it for a good long while. If it does snap and I end up on my ass, as always, I will pick myself up and start over, because that is what we do in this life. That is how we keep going. Eventually we find a good grip and find a life we can ride for a good long while, and if we are lucky, it will carry us comfortably to the end of the road.
I agree, so does my therapist. Am trying to stop beat myself up so much. But it is a lifelong habit and hard to break.
Then what I am about to say is nothing new to you. You have no need to beat on yourself, because you are a pretty cool guy. I have always liked you as a fellow forum member, and obviously everyone else seems to enjoy you as well. Not long ago one member commented on how good it was to see you post outside of the politics thread since they never posted in there themselves and we enjoying interacting with you. It is when you start ragging on yourself and beating yourself up that you become a drag to those around you.
perhaps, but I think we're getting into an area that is best left for me and my therapist to discuss.
I wasn't trying to bud in, just giving my assessment, and it sounds like I am right on, which is good news for you! Fears can be dealt with, you just have to whip out your sword and hack their head off. Which is... easier said than done.
I could never skate either.
The point wasn't that I can't skate, but that it was something I desperately wanted to do when I was a kid. The thought of skating on my own really excited me, and I dreamed about being able to do it. But tragically, I let my fears deprive me of ever getting to experience what so many other kids were able to do simply because they were willing to have a few bruses on their asses and I wasn't.
C3PX said:
*sigh* maybe I was a little childish about it. I just wanted to make this as close to a forum poll as possible. If this forum had had the capability, I would have create a real poll, but it doesn't.
I guess I shall just have to make up my own mind as to whether or not to resume talking politics.
This is a good example of ABC's comment on you misunderstanding me like you understand him, regardless of the fact that you and I share a common primary language. I was never suggesting that the way in which you organized your election was childish, in fact, it was clever enough and very much on par with, if not above, many of the other gags and games that go on in the off-topic these days.
but you did call it childish. I will quote you:
C3PX said:
Oddly, while ABC and I speak differently languages, we seem to communicate with each other very well. He didn't have to speak for me on how childish I thought your vote was, I made it clear myself by stating how ridiculous (or childish, if you will) I thought the vote was from the very beginning, added with my coin toss, which was meant to drive my point home, but you took it seriously.
and here you do it again:
Even if it had been an actual poll, I would have thought it childish/ridiculous. It was what it was about, rather than how it was done that made me think it childish and refused to take part in it (in a serious capacity).
could you please explain?
I know. I think it was childish. That has been established. You defended it saying you wanted it to be like a poll, but there was no poll option. Had there been a poll option on this board and you had infact made a poll, I would have felt it was childish just the same.
You seemed to feel (or at least I took this to be the case and responded as such) that we thought it was childish because of the way in which you conducted it, i.e. that we were bashing your making it out to be like an official election. BUT that WASN'T the case. I admitted that I thought that part was clever and amusing. ABC and I were calling the very idea of putting your own personal decisions to a vote, whether it be makeshift forum election or via a true poll, to be rather childish. It was what you were doing, not how you were doing it. We both clearly explained why we felt this way in earlier posts.
Does that make sense now?